War Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

19 War quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein’s war lines fuse science‑fiction imagination with sharp social critique, and these nineteen excerpts give you a solid feel for his forward‑looking, often provocative stance.

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The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

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The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's…

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Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

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The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

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The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

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It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space.…

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High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no…

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The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.…

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“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to…

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“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to…

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Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead…

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Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a…

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But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will…

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“What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the…

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There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes…

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“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to…

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“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't…

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“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes…

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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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